CORDUROY MANSIONS - Book 3 In the Corduroy Mansions series of novels, set in Londons hip Pimlico neighborhood, we meet a cast of charming eccentrics, including perhaps the worlds most clever terrier, who make their home in a handsome, though slightly dilapidated, apartment block. It seems the universe itself is conspiring against the residents of Corduroy Mansions, as they all find themselves struggling with their nearest and dearest. Oedipus Snarks mother, Berthea, is still at work on her scathing biography of her son—the only loathsome Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament literary agents Rupert Porter and Barbara Ragg are still battling each other for first crack at the manuscript of Autobiography of a Yeti fine arts graduate Caroline Jarvis is busy exploring the blurry line between friendship and romance and William French is still worrying that his son, Eddie, may never leave home, even though Eddies got a new wealthy girlfriend.